It was a vast, rocky coastline that was ideal for salting and drying fish, by a sea that was teeming with cod.Brief Summary of Book: Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky In June, after only thirty-five days at sea, Cabot found land, though it wasn’t Asia. Cabot reasoned correctly that the British Crown and the Bristol merchants would be willing to finance a search for a northern spice route. The English, being in the North, were far from the spice route and so paid exceptionally high prices for spices. Caboto was a Genovese who is remembered by the English name John Cabot, because he undertook this voyage for Henry VII of England. “Then, in 1497, five years after Columbus first stumbled across the Caribbean while searching for a westward route to the spice-producing lands of Asia, Giovanni Caboto sailed from Bristol, not in search of the Bristol secret but in the hopes of finding the route to Asia that Columbus had missed. This chowder is suitable for a large fishing”Ĭod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World An onion may be added if you like the flavor. The chowder is then ready to be first-rate if you have followed the directions. When this is done have a quart of boiling milk ready, and ten hard crackers split and dipped in cold water. Let the chowder boil twenty-five minutes. Fill the pot with water to cover the ingredients.
Add to that three parts of water, a layer of fish, so as to cover the bottom of the pot next a layer of potatoes, then two tablespoons of salt, I teaspoon of pepper, then the pork, another layer of fish, and the remainder of the potatoes. Try out the pork first, then take out the pieces of pork, leaving in the drippings.
Take one and a half pounds of clear, fat salt pork, cut in thin slices. Cut into pieces one and a half pounds thick, preserving the head whole. “PARTY CHOWDER Take a cod of ten pounds, well cleaned, leaving on the skin.
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